Instrument of the method · Architect
Decision Canvas and Governance Standard
A 12-field record for any significant decision, and a standard to govern decision-making against.
- Status
- Available now
- Lead demand
- Architect · Solutionist posture
- Spine plane
- L5 Judgement · L7 Execution & Feedback
- Method stage
- Publish · Learn
- Availability
- Now
· What it gives you
If you want significant decisions recorded the same way, every time,
A twelve-field canvas and a governance standard your own people can run without outside help.
I The problem
When a dispute, an audit or a regulator arrives, most organisations cannot show who decided, on what information, under what authority, or when the decision was due for review.
II Approach
- Record every significant decision on the Decision Canvas: twelve fields, in four lighter variants for smaller decisions.
- Review decision governance against the Decision Governance Standard: seventeen principles in four pillars.
- Score each pillar and produce a remediation plan a board can track.
- Keep people deciding: the canvas records the decision; it never makes it.
III Structure
- CanvasOwner, alternatives, evidence, authority, review date and more
- VariantsFour lighter forms for everyday decisions
- StandardSeventeen principles in four pillars
- RemediationA DGS score by pillar and a plan
IV Craft and next
Decision governance · Facilitation · Board reporting
The canvas is the human-scale form of the Decision IR: the same fields, before any platform is needed. It complements King IV and legal requirements; it does not replace them.
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